(JTA) — Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an authority on the post-Talmudic Babylonian scholars known as the Geonim, died July 4.

Ancient Jewish wisdom provides a framework for the ethos of scholarship. The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following ...

Purim and Yom Kippur, also called Yom Kippurim, are opposing mirror images of each other. Each provides the missing half that the other lacks and this year they merge as we celebrate in the midst of a ...

To counter this criminality and immorality, the spiritual work that Jews attempt on Purim is a reestablishment of the boundaries between good and evil. We seek to drown out the name of Haman (the ...

Rabbi Gedaliah Gurfein is the creator of the People’s Talmud, a remarkable online resource that makes the Talmud accessible to all who are curious, even those with little Jewish knowledge. Rabbi ...

Rabbi Mordechai Rotem, 63, of Waco’s Temple Rodef Sholom. He was born June 11, 1947, in Israel. He was ordained in 1980 as a Reform rabbi at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. “I was a class of one, ...

Among the more curious acquisitions to cross my desk this week was a pair of rare Talmud volumes that owe their existence to one of the most brilliant – and most vexing – rabbinic figures of the early ...

*Editor’s Note: The Jewish Press Online is proud to present a daily “Brain Teaser,” from The People’s Talmud website. Created by Rabbi Gedalia Gurfein, The People’s Talmud is unique in presentation, ...